Intel Xeon L5609 vs Intel Xeon W3550

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 1366 Intel Socket 1366
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 32 nm 45 nm
Transistors 1,170 million 731 million
Die size 239 mm² 263 mm²
Package FC-LGA10 FC-LGA8

Performance

Frequency 1866 MHz 3.066 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.333 GHz
Base clock 133 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 14.0x 23.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
Voltage 1.35 V 1.375 V
TDP 40 W 130 W

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Server/Workstation Server/Workstation
Production status End-of-life End-of-life
Release date Mar 16th, 2010 Aug 9th, 2009
Codename Westmere-EP Bloomfield
Generation Xeon Xeon
Part SLBVJ SLBEY
Memory support DDR3 Triple-channel DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory Yes Yes
PCI Express Gen 2 Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 4 4
Total Threads 4 8
SMP # CPUs 2 1
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 256K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 12MB (shared) 8MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

4.8GT/s QPI Yes
AES-NI Yes
EIST Yes Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSSE3 Yes Yes
TXT Yes Yes
VT-x Yes Yes
XD-Bit Yes Yes

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